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Don't break a leg: running birds from quail to ostrich prioritise leg safety and economy on uneven terrain
Cursorial ground birds are paragons of bipedal running that span a 500-fold mass range from quail to ostrich. Here we investigate the task-level control priorities of cursorial birds by analysing how they negotiate single-step obstacles that create a conflict between body stability (attenuating devi...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Company of Biologists
2014
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4213177/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25355848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.102640 |